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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1918
Page
3
Ottumwa enjoys a flurry of visitors and activity as business callers from Burlington Pleasant Plain and Wichita mingle in the city. Several residents attend funerals study at court house and travel to nearby towns while local merchants note harvest work keeping them away.
U S Army seeks able bodied men 18 to 21 and 31 to 41 for voluntary enlistment in infantry cavalry coast artillery field artillery engineers quartermasters medical signal corps and engineers. C B Trost from Ottumwa recruiting station is in Fairfield until Saturday noon at the post office hours 9 to 11 and 12 30 to 5 and 6 30 to 7 20 p m. If absent ask at Court Hotel. Special provision exists for dependents of married men.
The Orpheum presents The Bluebird an extraordinary superpicture adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck of Belgian fame. The film required months of work and new photographic tricks to immortalize the poet’s visions in motion pictures under Artcraft guidance in a grand allegorical epic.
At a Carthage Illinois board meeting on Tuesday Amos Denhart of Washington gave 15000 to Denhart hall, bringing his total to 40000 to the institution. The board plans a bond issue to cover the building debt and outlined campaigns in Illinois and Iowa to recruit 100 boys for a military training unit.
London reports that twenty one German destroyers a large number of submarines and many auxiliary craft in the Bruges canal docks were penned in by the British raid on Zeebrugge the German submarine base in Belgium Thomas J McNamara announced.
The referee will privately sell the Joseph Clinkenbeard estate residence at the corner of South Seventh and West Jackson streets. The property includes a full lot and four room house and is to be sold cheaply to settle the estate. June 2. The Fairfield theater shows Clara Kimball Young in Shirley Kaye and local stores close all day July 4 with evening hours July 3.
Burlington chosen as the site for the State Aerie meeting in 1919 during the current state session in Dubuque. The group supports banning amusement features during wartime and will focus sessions on business. Frank C. Norton of Burlington reelected secretary and serves on the credential committee.
Egg and poultry producers are invited to a demonstration at the Armory on June 27 focusing on proper egg handling and disease identification. The event aims to reduce waste due to improper handling and conserve resources with practical guidance and real specimens.
Notice announces the yarn room will be open Friday 1:00 to 3:30 p m in addition to regular hours. Knitting socks are to be set aside as the next yarn quota is for sweaters. Light Bearers entertainment moved to 8:00 Friday evening at the Presbyterian church parlors with 10 cent admission. You are invited.
A brief notice lists Kaye at the Fairfield Theater on Wednesday and Thursday with a new soldiers gift display in the window at Wilson's Art Store, 7104.
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